Copy right? Ignore or explore?

[Joanne Villis]

Anyone interested in sharing their copy right knowledge for their particular county? Copy right is a hot topic in Australia. We could share information in relation to referencing materials and how to make students arware of their copy right obligations. I think it important to make students aware that when they take something from the internet that are taking a copy of someone's resources. You can even teach this to students in year 2 or 3. It is also important for teachers to be aware of.

[Joanne Villis]

Here is the link to an article on how you can share other teacher's blog posts if you have a blog, this was a learning curve for me to.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/06/how-to-share-blog-posts-yo...

[Joanne Villis]

Sorry, the URL might come in handy! http://jvillis.edublogs.org/

[Joanne Villis]

I've just finished creating an edublog to teach Grade 3 (8 years olds) about copy right, the importance of it and how they can be authentic digital citizens. The students are still blogging. You may be interesting in visiting the blog and post a blog on the visitors page. You can download my term program (the unit links are English, Technology and Science) from the blog site. There are also some Notebook resources which you can download. If you find any typos can you please email me directly at [e-mail] rather than blogging them. I am being assessed on this unit as a component for my Masters in ICT/Education. Thanks for your help, happy to share.

[Ian Berg]

SMART Exchange content may be used in SMART Notebook files for non-profit purposes in most countries under copyright law ( http://exchange.smarttech.com ).  To protect people who download material from SMART Exchange, the Agreement to share resources states "You may not use the Site to distribute unauthorized copies of copyrighted material, including photos, artwork text, recordings, designs, computer programs or derivative works of such programs."

Wikimedia Commons is another site I like which provides content which may be used for non-profit purposes under the copyright law of most countries ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ). 

[Joanne Villis]

Thanks for sharing. I believe that people should be recognised for their work, time and effort. At least acknowledge the creator of the original work. I often say to students, if you spent time creating something and someone else copied it how would you feel?

The video that you use (Matt) is great, especially as it features Walt Disney. Large corporations like this are hot on copy right. For example, I mentioned Goldilocks and the Three Bears on my website, as part of a text description for a link for a resource that Scholastic created. I received a warning email by Walt Disney to make sure that my content meets copy right standards. It did, but this just goes to show that you need to careful when you post documents/articles etc on the web.

I’d like to share some information about copy right and YouTube. The copy right ownership of a YouTube clip belongs to the person who uploaded the clip. If you want to download a clip from YouTube you should ask the person who uploaded the clip for copy right permission. I have never had any one say, “No, you cannot download my clip for educational purposes”. However, I have had people who haven’t replied. This depends on the length of time that the clip has been uploaded for or maybe because the person who uploaded the clip changed their email or YouTube address. People generally care, they are generally happy for you to download their content; you only need to make the effort to ask. Credit for original work is appreciated by everyone.

Additionally, under the copy right act you can legally embed a YouTube clip using the html code onto a website/wiki etc. You can do this because the video clip actually plays through YouTube. You aren’t physically taking/downloading anything that someone else has created. I'll upload some more information later.

 

[Obe Hostetter]

This web page has some fair use and copyright guidelines and resources at http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/HowTo/fairuse/fairuse.htm

See Disney Parody explanation of Copyright Law and Fair Use at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo

[Matt Granger]

I am teaching an online class for National Louis University right now and we just had online discussions about this. Most of the teachers in the class had no idea that if they used an image from the internet (through google images), that they should at least cite the website it is from. Many said that if it is on the internet, whoever put it there expects people to use it. Why should they have to cite it? 

Others thought that if they bought a song that they could use the whole thing in a video project and post it or burn to DVD for students and it was no big deal. Their argument was that it was for educational purposes and they weren't profiting from it, so it isn't a problem. They weren't aware that someone could use zamzar to rip the song from the video and have a free copy of the song. It isn't an issue of whether they are profiting from it, it is that they have just negatively impacted the artist's ability to profit from their work. 

All that to say that many teachers don't have a clue about copyright and fair use. I use this video to teach them about the topic in the class.